Fumiharu Kino, Japanese Bizenyaki tall type houhin, wood-fired non-hanlde teapot
Made by Fumiharu Kino
Made in Japan
Size：Height 10.5cm * Width 9.3cm * Depth 8.6cm
Material：Pottery
Capacity：(Maximum)250ml
Package: Paper Box
Shipping Cost (It might differ from the actual EMS shipping rate)
Asia District (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Macau, China, etc.) - JPY 1720
America District(USA, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, etc) - JPY 2400
Oceanea District(Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Fiji, Papua New Guinia, etc) - JPY 2400
Middle East District(Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait Bahrain, Israel, etc )- JPY 2400
Europe District(France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Belguim, Poland, Russia, etc) - JPY 2600
Shipping method
We use EMS(Express Mail Service). After we ship the product, it will take 3-10days to arrive at your place. You can track the parcel.
Purchaser of the product must read the below condition carefully.
Return/exchange and refund
We will not accept return/exchange of the product unless the products we sold have any damages or we shipped the wrong item. If we accept the return/exchange, the products must be complete and without any signs of having been used or damaged.
The product is carefully examined before shipping. However, in case there is any damage in the product, you should check the product within 7 days and report to us after receiving it (the days are calculated fromt the proven date of delivery). Otherwise, we will not be responsible for the damage, so please check the quantity, apparent condition, etc., when the product arrives.
The color of the product you will receive might look slightly different from the pictures you see in this web page. This is because depending on the amount of light when the picture was taken, the color in each picture might look different. Please understand, we will not accept return or make refund because of the above reasons.
We will not be responsible for any of the customs clearance and customs duty/tariff payment.
Fumiharu Kino
The beauty of Bizen-yaki – Bizen ware – lies in the essence of clay itself: Over the course of two long weeks in a wood-fired kiln, unique discolorations and patterns of patina, known as yōhen, appear on the surface of each piece without any help from glaze.
One such yōhen, known as sangiri, is Fumiharu Kino’s calling card. These pieces exhibit brilliant spots of white and yellow, produced when charcoal is added to the kiln.
“I might be about the only Bizen-ware artisan to make charcoal myself,” Kino says. How and whether the sangiri effect appears on each work depends on how much charcoal reacts with each piece, making the pieces that do bear it richly expressive. Kino has also altered his kiln to encourage the sangiri effect to appear more often, installing more slots where charcoal can be inserted.
Kino was born in 1951 to a happy home near the Imbe section of Bizen, Okayama – the home of Bizen-ware. He toiled as an ordinary office-worker for six years after graduating high school. But at the age of 24, he began working at the Bisyugama workshop under Tōshū Yamamoto, a relative of his wife who would later be named a Living National Treasure of Japan. Kino studied under Yamamoto – and then his son Yuichi Yamamoto, later named an important intangible cultural property of Okayama Prefecture – for 20 years.
He learned well the lessons they had to teach. Tōshū Yamamoto was renowned for his use of the pottery wheel to create teaware with elegant, refined silhouettes. “He was very strict, and obsessed with the beauty of a piece’s shape,” Kino recalls. “He would not compromise a bit.”
